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Director Sedlak, said how all Breather Betty dolls are molded from the death mask of a single French girl.
“True story,” she told the group of them.
This face on the floor, it’s the face of a suicide pulled from the water over a century ago. Those same blue lips. The same staring dull eyes. All Breather Betty dolls are moulded from the face of this same young woman who threw herself into the Seine River.
If the girl died because of love or loneliness, we’ll never find out. But police detectives used plaster to cast a mask of her dead face, to help find her name, and decades later a toymaker owned that death mask and used it to cast the face of the first Breather Betty.
Despite the risk that somebody in a school or factory or Army unit might someday lean down and recognize the long-dead body of their sister, mother, daughter, wife, this exact dead girl is kissed by millions of people. For generations, millions of strangers have pressed their mouths over hers, those lips her exact drowned lips. For the rest of history, all over the world, people will be trying to save this same dead woman.
This woman who just wanted to die.
The girl who turned herself into an object.
Nobody said the last part. But nobody had to
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from "Haunted" by Chuck Palaniuk
The starting of one of the short stories in the book. It's based on fact though, can check this out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Inconnue_de_la_Seine
The story itself is prolly too explicit for me to post up here, but if u are interested, can go search for "exodus", "haunted", "chuck palaniuk", i'm sure u'll be able to find ebooks out there. I repeat the disclaimer, it WILL be explicit, though dangerously funny at the same time. lolz.. If you can take that, you can try searching for "guts", another of the short stories. The author claims people have fainted from the recitation of the story..
just a preview
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This is just what human beings do - turn objects into people, people into objects. Back and forth. Tit for tat.
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